Shiira (シイラ, Japanese for the common dolphin-fish) is an open source web browser for the Mac OS X operating system. According to its website, the goal of Shiira is "to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari". Its Japanese designers crafted Shiira to use WebKit for rendering and scripting. The project is led by Makoto Kinoshita.
The last release of Shiira was in July, 2007 (version 2.2), and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later. Th...
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Shiira (シイラ, Japanese for the common dolphin-fish) is an open source web browser for the Mac OS X operating system. According to its website, the goal of Shiira is "to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari". Its Japanese designers crafted Shiira to use WebKit for rendering and scripting. The project is led by Makoto Kinoshita.
The last release of Shiira was in July, 2007 (version 2.2), and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later. The final release for OS X 10.3 was 1.2.2.
Since the browser is being developed with Safari in mind, the main characteristics of the two browsers are similar. For example, Shiira employs private browsing options so that history and cookies are not recorded when activated. However, Shiira has enhanced many features of Safari to give Shiira its own feel. The search engines search field on the toolbar includes many search engines and is fully customizable, and tabbed browsing is very flexible, enabling users to, for example, reorder tabs by...
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